{"quotes":[{"text":"My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","exile","otma","romanovs","russia","russian-revolution","traveling","tsar-nicholas-ii","war"],"id":11697,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"Goodbye, Christian,' I murmur.'Ana, goodbye,' he says softly, and he looks utterly, utterly broken,a man in agonizing pain, reflecting how I feel inside. I tear my gaze away from him before I can change my mind and try to comfort him.The elevator doors close close and it whisks me down to the bowels of the basement and to my own personal hell.","author":"E.L. James","tags":["anastasia","christian","christiangrey","fiftyshades","grey"],"id":16348,"author_id":"E.L.+James"},{"text":"You are one brave woman,' he whispers, 'I am in awe of you.","author":"E.L. James","tags":["ana","anastasia","anastasia-steele","brave","christian","christian-grey","fifty-shades","fifty-shades-of-grey"],"id":39426,"author_id":"E.L.+James"},{"text":"You make me sound like an arrogant ass,' he said.'Are you?'No! I'm just me.","author":"P.C. Cast","tags":["anastasia","dragon","funny","humor"],"id":46916,"author_id":"P.C.+Cast"},{"text":"Whether you love Bach or would rather listen to a composition produced by Kulitta Software, Bach has and will continue to demand the we approach and answer the question, 'what is the art, science and language of music?","author":"Anastasia Lily","tags":["ana-s-piano","anastasia","art","johann-sebastian-bach","love","master-of-the-universe","music","science","universal"],"id":62026,"author_id":"Anastasia+Lily"},{"text":"So the peasants are used as targets in war?” I doubted. “Does the Overhead feel that is necessary to kill off one of their own? Peasants are being placed as diversions on the front line like they mean nothing—”\t“Would you rather save the strong, or spare the weak?” Mother questioned me.\t“Why can we not do both?” I returned.\t“Because Heaven has its reasons, Anastasia,” Mother chimed quietly. “It is Heavens way to balance those who are strong and those who are weak. It cannot be changed.","author":"Barbara C. Doyle","tags":["anastasia","layers-of-heaven","mother","testing-fate"],"id":92030,"author_id":"Barbara+C.+Doyle"},{"text":"Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","home","otma","russia","russian-revolution","sadness","the-romanovs","tsar-nicholas-ii"],"id":165086,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"And so a pattern develops: wake, work cry. Sleep. I can't even escape him in my dreams. Gray burning eyes, his lost look, his hair burnished and bright and bright all haunt me. And the music... So much music-I cannot bear to hear any music. I am careful to avoid it at all costs. Even the jingles in commercials make me shudder.","author":"E.L. James","tags":["anastasia","anastasia-steele","christian","fifty-shades-of-grey"],"id":186218,"author_id":"E.L.+James"},{"text":"The Overhead bears the most powerful Healers in Heaven,” Mother began softly. “The Healers—or Guardian Angels, as we were once known as—are given the most power from the sun. Our powers to heal others come from the light and good of the earth—it is what enables us to wake in the morning.","author":"Barbara C. Doyle","tags":["anastasia","layers-of-heaven","mother","testing-fate"],"id":198542,"author_id":"Barbara+C.+Doyle"},{"text":"I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","believing","otma","pretending","romanovs","russia","russian-revolution","tsar-nicholas-ii","war"],"id":254878,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}